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Emma Nuding

Supported by the Friends of Glasgow University Library

Emma Nuding is Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, where she completed her Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD in 2022. In 2023-2024, she held a lectureship in Early Modern and Medieval Literature at Lancaster University. Her first book, Writing St Guthlac of Crowland, Medieval to Modern, is in press with Boydell and Brewer and charts a Fenland hermit’s reception trajectory from the eighth century to the twenty-first, covering Anglo-Latin, Old English and Middle English texts and utilising place-based approaches. She has published in Medieval Ecocriticisms (2023), The John Clare Society Journal (2022) and Studies in Medievalism (2025), and her co-authored pedagogical work is forthcoming in Speculum (2026). Alongside her research, she currently works in Education and Outreach with Lancaster City Museums.

Emma’s fellowship at Glasgow will take her previous research theme of place-based approaches to medieval texts and their later reception and apply it to a new case study: the longest (and least-studied) Middle English text in Alliterative Verse, 'The Destruction of Troy', which survives in a single manuscript witness held at Glasgow. Her project will ‘locate’ the text, its manuscript, and its early modern readers within the Northwest of England, by exploring details both within the poem itself and in the margins of its single manuscript witness.

I am really honoured to be awarded this fellowship: it gives me the time and space to pursue the research idea I’ve had for a while, and (crucially) it gives me access to a manuscript that is not currently digitised. As someone interested in place-based approaches, I’m also looking forward to getting to know Glasgow itself!